Remember the Truth
Lately, I’ve had to tell myself this a lot. Sometimes it’s like that’s all that’s running through my head. “Remember the truth.”
Last weekend, I went on a mini staycation with some friends. My best friend’s boyfriend was visiting her so we spent some time at the beach getting to know him. It was the break I needed, but suddenly I found myself feeling sad.
I kept thinking, “he should be here.” And then my mind would wander through so many scenarios all leading me to the same place. “No, he shouldn’t.”
One morning I was sitting outside avoiding reading in 1 Kings. I’ve been working on that book for months, and like most days I didn’t want to go in there. I started to tell God how I was tired of feeling connected to somebody I wasn’t going to spend my life with. I told him I didn’t think anything in 1 Kings could help me. I was at the peak of defeat when God said, “but everything I say is the truth.” Even in 1 Kings, I could find the truth because God is in there and anything he says is the truth.
Later that day, a friend checked up on me. She does that often. Asked me how I was doing. I told her what happened earlier, and I also said this, “I just tell myself the truth until that’s all that’s left.”
I know God is enough, but he doesn’t feel like enough when I’m sad or lonely. He doesn’t feel enough when my justifications sound so valid. But I remember the truth. He is enough. So I say it and say it and say it again.
I remember all of the truth I know in scripture. I remember the truth he’s told me during this season. I even ask my friends to tell me the truth because sometimes I just can’t. And all of that helps.
Whatever you’re going through, it won’t last forever. I heard Lisa Bevere say this, “God is a healer. He will heal you supernaturally, through medicine or by taking you home. But he is a healer.” That’s the truth. God won’t leave me like this. He didn’t leave me like that so I trust him when he says the truth.
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